Obama-lama-ding-dong… A Roundup and Some Commentary

By jen

1.) Via : The Corner

Condi Rice, for example, has childhood memories of a segregated south and racial violence. But that’s what makes Obama’s association with Wright so significant. He’s not from Alabama. He’s a biracial middle-class Kenyan-Kansan Hawaiian-born Indonesian-raised Columbia and Harvard graduate who chose to immerse himself in the most corrosive and paranoid end of a racial-grievance ghetto mentality that is nothing to do with him, his family or his upbringing. He doesn’t have the same excuse as a Jackson, Sharpton or Farrakhan.

I am with Steyn on this one when he asks why the Obamas would choose to expose their children to this sort of anti-American crap. If the goal of Mr. Obama is to unite this country and change the “tone” of our discourse, why immerse your children in such divisive and hateful environments? Because you are an American hating elitist liberal, that’s why.

2.) Has anyone else noticed that Jeri is whiter than Barry O?

Seriously, Jeri is damn near the same color as me! In my life I have found the black folks I work with hyper aware of the color differences within their own community. Comments like, “She is pretty, but did you see how black her man is?” or “He is fine, but he is so black.” At least they seem to have gotten over that issue. Beige is the new black?

3.) Spengler delivers another great piece about Obama and his particular variety of Christianity:

Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors. But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a “black messiah” and blacks as “the chosen people”. At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy.

What played out last week on America’s television screens was a clash of two irreconcilable cultures, the posture of “black liberation theology” and the mainstream American understanding of Christianity. Obama, who presented himself as a unifying figure, now seems rather the living embodiment of the clash.

The article goes into a good explanation of the basis of Black Liberation Theology and its prominent theologians, James Cone and Dwight Hopkins.

Either God must do what we want him to do, or we must reject him, Cone maintains:

Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.

In the black liberation theology taught by Wright, Cone and Hopkins, Jesus Christ is not for all men, but only for the oppressed:

In the New Testament, Jesus is not for all, but for the oppressed, the poor and unwanted of society, and against oppressors … Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and against the white oppressors, or he is not [Cone].

Spengler goes on to say:

It cannot be in Obama’s best interests to appeal to the authority of Cone, whose unapologetic racism must be repugnant to the great majority of Americans, including the majority of black Americans, who for the most part belong to Christian churches that preach mainstream Christian doctrine. Christianity teaches unconditional love for a God whose love for humankind is absolute; it does not teach the repudiation of a God who does not destroy our enemies on the spot.

Obama holds his own views close. But it seems unlikely that he would identify with the ideological fits of the black-power movement of the 1960s. Obama does not come to the matter with the perspective of an American black, but of the child of a left-wing anthropologist raised in the Third World… It is possible that because of the Wright affair Obama will suffer for what he pretended to be, rather than for what he really is.

I think Barry O. is too slick for his own good and it is biting him in the ass. The shine is definitely coming off and we will see if he can get the smudges off long enough to secure his party’s nomination. Barry knows what is best for us and frankly he will say anything and associate with anyone who will help him get to the prize. We can all hope that eventually people will realize his message of Hope and Change is really just overwhelming Hubris, but if past elections have taught us anything about the liberal mindset, we shouldn’t hold our breath.